<div dir="ltr"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">==== 4th International Conference on Neural Field Theory (ICNFT) - The Interplay of Models and Data Assimilation  ====</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Dear Colleague,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">we are pleased to re-announce that the 4th International Conference on Neural Field Theory (ICNFT) will be held</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">**</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1607_com_zimbra_date" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1608_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1620_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">July 3</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">to 5, 2017 at the University of Reading, UK. **</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">The event is following a highly successful series of conferences which took place in Reading in 2010, 2012, and 2014, see for instance</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"></span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1609_com_zimbra_url" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1610_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1621_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.inverseproblems.info/icnft2014" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration:none">http://www.inverseproblems.info/icnft2014</a></span></span></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">The ICNFT community includes researchers from medicine, psychology, physics, mathematics and engineering. The International Conferences on Neural Field Theory at the University of Reading contribute to the further development and shaping of this community by bringing together well-known and young researchers. Ideas from the different fields meet here in a truly interdisciplinary and inspiring environment.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">The scientific program this year will focus on the interplay of models and data assimilation: Model Hierarchy & Numerics, Measurement Data & QC, Observation Operators, Analysis Technique and Uncertainty Estimation, Data Assimilation Cycle, Prediction, Verifikation</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Invited Speakers include John Spencer (East Anglia U), Wilhelm Stannat (TU Berlin), Timothy Sauer (George Mason University), Rosalyn Moran (U Bristol), David Grayden (U Melbourne), Estela Bicho Erlhagen (U of Minho), Dietmar Heinke (U Birmingham); Tutorials will be given by Stephen Coombes, Ingo Bojak, Roland Potthast and Axel Hutt.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">For further information and to register see</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1611_com_zimbra_url" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1622_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://inverseproblems.info/icnft2017" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration:none">http://inverseproblems.info/icnft2017</a></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1612_com_zimbra_url" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1623_com_zimbra_url" style="cursor: pointer;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.inverseproblems.info/_media/icnft2017.pdf" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration:none">http://www.inverseproblems.info/_media/icnft2017.pdf</a></span></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">** Deadline for Abstracts:</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1613_com_zimbra_date" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1614_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1624_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">March 15</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">**  \\</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">** Deadline for Registration and Posters</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1615_com_zimbra_date" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1616_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1625_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">April 15</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">**</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Your Organizing Team</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Roland Potthast, Axel Hutt, Stephen Coombes, Ingo Bojak, Peter beim Graben, Douglas Saddy and Ingeborg Lasser.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Axel Hutt<br>Directeur de Recherche<br>Deutscher Wetterdienst - German Meteorological Service
<br>Research and Development, Department FE 12 (Data Assimilation)
<br>Frankfurter Strasse 135, 63067 Offenbach, Germany
Tel.: +49 69 8062 2750<br><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/digitalbath/" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.ws/digitalbath/</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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